Apple Unveils OS X Mountain Lion With Over 100 New Features

[Maura]

Apple announced today that it has just released the developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, its ninth major release of OS X, bringing popular apps and features from the iPad to the Mac, namely Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay Mirroring. Mountain Lion is the first OS X release built with iCloud in mind to make it easy to set up and integrate with apps. The developer preview of Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, a revolutionary security feature that helps keep you safe from malicious software by giving you complete control of what apps are installed on your Mac.

“The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world’s most advanced personal computer operating system.”

Mac users can upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store in late summer 2012.

Source: Apple via AppleInsider

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[Unleashed]

I am surprised that apple will release another os so quickly but I am for sure going to get it the day its released :D and we have imessage for the mac now as well

also just to add you can now download a beta version of imessage for the mac: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain...messages-beta/

[iFrog]

I was really looking forward to see iMessage on osx and after watching a video I'm really looking forward to upgrade my new iMac to 10.8 as soon as it become available :)

[JezzerP]

Mountain Lion eh? Sounds interesting. Was wondering what big cat could possibly come after Lion. That is a pretty short release period for OSX.

[Unleashed]

OS X Mountain Lion will only allow applications downloaded from the Mac App Store and identified developers by default, according to Daring Fireball and MacWorld.

The new setting is part of Gatekeeper, a feature in OS X Mountain Lion that protects you from downloading and running malicious software.

Developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications. If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer's certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it's been installed.

Interestingly, our install of OS X Mountain Lion was set to allow applications from anywhere; however, that may be due to the fact that it was an update and not a clean install.

[JezzerP]

Just go to Apple - OS X Mountain Lion. Innovation comes back to the Mac. for a 'sneak peak'

[sparkyscott21]

Guys, don't forget to d/l xcode first before moutain lion....

[poisonivy]

I'm just used to Lion now but i suppose i will update,i only just got my mbp when Loin was released so i wasn't really used to ? was it snow leopard? how soon we forget lol.

[Macette]

Looking forward to this... Liking the iMessage thing and reminders can't wait to hear what the experts think after they have a play..

[iVan]

Wait! Does that mean we'll finally be able to use iBooks on the Mac, now?